Posts Tagged ‘Peyton treatments’

I’m only going to say this once: I’m totally legal, I’m a citizen! No one’s getting deported.  What we’re doing is getting DE-ported.
This post is about Peyton.
July 14, 2006 saw us here

Peyton looking petrified and me trying my best not to.  That was the bed that she laid in as they wheeled her away to [...]

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After taking Peyton’s temperature eleventy-million times on Friday, she finally hit the hospital stay lottery number [...]

Today I was proven wrong.  Because today? Today I watched my child have a BAD one.
Peyton had her monthly visit at the clinic for a spinal tap with chemo injected into her spinal fluid and chemo in her port.
I’m not going to go into the awful details of WHY there was blood on the table, [...]

We are officially a trophy family.
That makes my kids trophy kids.
I get to be a trophy wife.  Heh!
Ok, so REALLY? We are a trophy-painting family.  In preparation for the Cure Kids Cancer Challenge benefiting the Pediatric Cancer Foundation in September, the kids and I joined some other local families all too familiar with the childhood [...]

I am not one of those parents that bemoan the end of summer.  I love these kids, but I also love the moment when they step away from me towards the classrooms and I have some breathing room.  I met Monday morning with arms wide open and full of potential.
I WILL take advantage of this [...]